Super 8 (Hope, Arkansas)

From TripAdvisor.
I'm back! I've decided, in light of the rather intense posting schedule over the last few weeks before the break, that new posts should go up every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (may be delayed), but sharing duties with The Houston Files and Brazos Buildings & Businesses (so not necessarily three posts in a week for Numbered Exits). Seeing as how I got back from a vacation which I'll be documenting on Numbered Exits in the future, this post concerns a property from a few years ago, the Super 8 in Hope, Arkansas, at a property which is no longer a hotel.¹

I stayed at the Super 8 in July 2024 and found that the address, 2000 Holiday Drive, indicated its pedigree as a former Holiday Inn (though hadn't been one in years at that point). Unfortunately, I can't find hard proof that it was a Holiday Inn or when the changeover happened (no postcards, no newspaper archives, the only thing I really have is that it wasn't listed in the 2002 directory). In 2024 it was a very tired motel, worn down and not much of a breakfast at all, despite a huge dining area. The reviews were pretty bad at the time but it wasn't the worst motel I've stayed in. (Maybe it was at the time, but that record has easily been broken.)

Around 2025 it closed and became a location of The Dels, an Arkansas-based company to provide "sustainable, transient housing throughout Arkansas and the Midwest". I do have a picture of my own room's easy chair (but did not take a picture of the bathroom and its baby blue tiles).

1. Other than the Travelodge in Austin that has since been converted to apartments, I can't think of any hotels I've stayed at where the property isn't being used as a hotel anymore.

Target Cherry Lane (Fort Worth, Texas)

This was when it was still open as a Target, so before 2008. (Bing Birds Eye View).
Here's a post that was originally supposed to be on Carbon-izer but exclusive to Numbered Exits. In spring 2010 I took a trip to Fort Worth and while I sadly don't have any pictures from that trip I do have a few images I took from the old "Bing Birds Eye View" (back when they had mid-2000s shots) of the old Target that was near our hotel. Bluepages reports the Target (T-74) at 2600 South Cherry Lane opened in November 1979 and closed in July 2008, when it was replaced by the store at 751 Alta Mere Drive.

A slightly closer look. (Bing Birds Eye View).
Additionally, a stand-alone Payless ShoeSource (2610 S. Cherry Lane) was boarded up and closed. This store operated from approximately spring 1981 to March 2008. In late 2012 the building was repainted and reopened as "Premium Title Loans". A Payless ShoeSource did exist in Ridgmar Mall proper from 1987 to the chain's bankruptcy in 2019 as well. There's a page for Bastrop's stand-alone Payless ShoeSource stores here on Carbon-izer.com though I need to fix it as the pictures are upside down as of this writing. I may have some more pictures of this Payless (also from Bing Birds Eye View), though that may have to come later (I already delayed this post as it was!).

The Target had direct access to West Freeway's frontage road (I-30), and as of December 2023 was subdivided into smaller, office-like tenants including Perkins Aircraft Windows Inc., Blue Haven Pools, Conti Warehouses, Midcoast Energy, Required Team Gear, and Momentum Upstream.

Finally, the front part of the Target parking lot was redeveloped with a small strip mall building (2606 S. Cherry Lane) that has of March 2024, Cherry Lane Cleaners, Wally's Liquors, a vacancy, Donut Express, A Plus Nails, and Star Relaxation. Finally, a Holiday Inn Express & Suites at 2620 S. Cherry Lane to replace the hotel at 2620 S. Cherry Lane was built sometime around the mid-2010s.